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Trigun is not all that.

And pretty much everything on Adult Swim is overrated because it is a main anime source for a lot of people. Everyone knows of the AS series.

Sluggish plot

underdeveloped plot

so-so characters & development,

absolutely atrocious animation after the first seven or so episodes.

Agreed, Trigun is appealing to me mostly for Vash's phisophical views on life; I'm not a big fan of the action sequences in this series.

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darkhunter wrote:

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Also, I'm assuming you're female because most female I know don't' like action title at all. Trigun is a good action title. Recommend if you're an action fan.

one3rd wrote:

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Yes, quite so. Too bad there's no "Sexist Bullshit" tag, viz:

darkhunter wrote:

Also, I'm assuming you're female because most female I know don't' like action title at all. Trigun is a good action title. Recommend if you're an action fan.

- abunai

Well it's true that most female here in the U.S. don't like action title. You can like it if you want, I'm just generalized the female. I tried recommend Trigun to female and they tend to like Fruit Basket or Ranma more.

You're so easily offend, what country are you from? France?

abunai wrote:

Yes, quite so. Too bad there's no "Sexist Bullshit" tag, viz: darkhunter wrote: Also, I'm assuming you're female because most female I know don't' like action title at all. Trigun is a good action title. Recommend if you're an action fan. - abunai

Well it's true that most female here in the U.S. don't like action title. I never said all, that's what you assume.

You're so easily offend, what country are you from? France?

I wonder how you're gonna deal with real life.

Sluggish plot? I'd rather call it uneven. It seems obvious that there are some episodes that could have been removed without losing the central storyline, and are therefore essentially superfluous.

So-so characters & development? No. I'll grant you, many of the secondary characters are complete cardboard cut-outs, but the central characters have sufficient depth (not that one couldn't wish for more).

didn`t really see anything wrong with [the animation].

abunai wrote:

Sluggish plot? I'd rather call it uneven. It seems obvious that there are some episodes that could have been removed without losing the central storyline, and are therefore essentially superfluous.

This is true. Would have been nice if they'd have cut some of the filler for a few more episodes tying up the loose ends.

abunai wrote:

So-so characters & development? No. I'll grant you, many of the secondary characters are complete cardboard cut-outs, but the central characters have sufficient depth (not that one couldn't wish for more).

Vash, Wolfwood, & Milly were well-covered, and Meryl had enough, though I'd have liked more (since she's actually my favourite character pretty much). Knives...I'm on the fence. I would have liked to have seen more involving the actual roots of his frame of mind other than spoiler[being picked on by a drunk crewman. The way it was presented just left me with the impression that he wants to kill all of humanity because one or two people he lived with were bad eggs.] And Legato just didn't cut it for me. He was the "Darth Maul" of Trigun, as far as I'm concerned. Big, scary bad guy with little else to offer. And the Gung-ho Guns were complete throwaways with just about the sole exception of Chapel.

darkhunter wrote:

Well it's true that most female here in the U.S. don't like action title. You can like it if you want, I'm just generalized the female. I tried recommend Trigun to female and they tend to like Fruit Basket or Ranma more.

Acctually, it's a really bland generalization to say that most females don't like action titles. I think that's the point being made. I don't even think that it's true that females in general in the U.S. dislike action titles (infact, I'm pretty sure it's the opposite). To assume someone is a girl just because they don't like action titles is pretty stereotypical, not to mention not very accurate or smart either.

But just the fact that someone said: "Oh I don't think Trigun's action is all the great, makes me think that they're not even action fan.

You can say certain anime are sexist because it has fanservice for guy. When a studio produce a product, they usually have a general target in mind.

Mmm-hmm. No argument there. Filler episodes are the Achilles' heel of any series. Though they might be convenient for people coming in midway in a story, they break the pace for the regular viewers.

I don't think Trigun's action is all that great, and that's mostly because the animation (and as a result, the look & choreography of the action scenes) is bottom-of-the-barrel terrible. I love a good action sequence though, and stuff like Cowboy Bebop's gunfights or Kenshin's swordfights (well...most of them, like his duels with Soujiro & Saitou) or Banner of the Stars' naval combat stand out as far better examples in my mind than Trigun's clumsy, choppy, muddy duels.

Go watch a shoujo and you'll definitely see fanservice for the female crowd. Shirtless bishounen, tight pants, that sort of thing. Although I will risk being somewhat sexist in saying that fanservice aimed at female audiences is often more tastefully done and less shameless than, say, the typical guys' harem anime.

Nagisa wrote:

.....shirtless bishounen, tight pants, that sort of thing. Although I will risk being somewhat sexist in saying that fanservice aimed at female audiences is often more tastefully done and less shameless than, say, the typical guys' harem anime.

Right, fanboys just get their fanservice handed to them; no mystery whatsoever. You ask for a shower scene, you get boobies and barbie-doll nudity. Fansevice for girls tend to be more tasteful in the fact that it leaves them intrigued to see more; an open shirt and skin-tight pants are more enticing^_^